PrepTest 132 - Section 3 - Passage 3 - Question 16

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Specialists in international communications almost unanimously assert that the broadcasting in developing nations of television programs produced by industrialized countries amounts to cultural imperialism: the phenomenon of one culture's productions overwhelming another's, to the detriment of the flourishing of the latter. ███

Other perspective · Showing TV programs from industrialized countries to developing nations is cultural imperialism

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Assumption of other perspective · Imported TV shows always dominate over domestic ones, and are always harmful to domestic culture

Author's critique · Other perspective is based on little or no research

Concession and clarification · Dominance is a risk, but assumption that imported always dominates is unsupported or anti-supported

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Support for author · Imported programs rarely harm domestic ones, and aren't always more popular

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Author's perspective · Role of TV in developing nations is different from what others think

One study of viewing habits showed popularity of certain domestic productions.

Recommendation · Need to use approach of anthropologist to study impact of external cultural influences

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First question to examine · What's best model for relationship between imported and domestic productions?

It's not dominance. Could it be that domestic absorbs imported? Or that domestic and imported fuse only under certain conditions?

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Second question to examine · How do individual viewers behave?

Need to take into account diversity of responses and experiences.

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Logical continuation

Any logical continuation of P4 will serve the purpose of that paragraph, which we can define in low-res terms. First, in P3, the author says that certain measures are needed in order to address a problem (comms specialists don’t properly understand the impact of imported media). P4 then describes one of those measures. So the purpose of P4 is to recommend a necessary part of the author’s solution to a problem. The right answer will reinforce that purpose: the author’s recommendation is necessary to solve the problem.

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This isn’t the problem that the author’s trying to solve in P4 or anywhere else. The problem isn’t how well cultural relationships in general can be described by abstract models in general. The problem is specifically how comms specialists can properly understand the impact that other cultures’ media have on people.

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Anti-supported. This says that if comms specialists ignore the author’s recommendations in P4, their dominance view will hold up to criticism. But the author already shows in P1 and P2 that the dominance view doesn’t hold up, with or without the recommendations in P4.

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This reinforces and sums up the author’s point in P4, which is that comms specialists need to follow the author’s recommendation in order to solve the problem of how to accurately model the impact that imported media have on people.

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Too strong. We know the author believes that comms specialists must follow her recommendations in P4 in order to address shortcomings in their understanding. But the author never suggests that such specialists lack credibility overall, or that they passionately crave it. (D) is pushing an argument that the author isn’t trying to make.

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This shifts the focus of P4 away from purpose of the paragraph or the passage and introduces a completely new position, so it doesn’t make for a good logical extension. P4 says that the model must emphasize certain things in order to properly describe how imported media impact people. (E) changes topic by saying that what really matters about the model is actually something else: its economic insights.

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